See Something Funny

Andy Horwitz

Those of you who saw DANCEOFF! at P.S. 122 in October know what a fantastic and fun dance program this is.

There is an all new DANCEOFF! scheduled for
February 18th & 19th @ Symphony Space’s “Laughter After Dark” Comedy Festival.

This edition of DANCEOFF stars Leigh Garrett, Ryan Bronz, Jonah Bokaer, Parallel Exit, Ivy Baldwin Dance, Jenai Cutcher, Nathan Phillips, Katie Workum, and Terry Dean Bartlett w/ Members of STREB!

And mark your calendars NOW for when DANCEOFF returns to P.S. 122 for two great nights – April 5th and 6th, 2005.

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3 responses to “See Something Funny”

  1. Isa Reisner

    I was one of the 6 kids in The Young Dance Collective last Dance Off. It was alot of fun. I enjoyed the whole feeling and meeting other dancers. We all were overjoyed when we heard that we were performing in it… Thank you Terry Dean and Katie!

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  2. jeff miller

    Wow, I have been following these DANCEOFF! folks since they were Lisa LeAnn & Terry Dean put on a Danceshow at Galapagos in Williamsburg, and this was hands down the best installment yet of the series. and sold out, and much deservedly so. They just keep getting better and better, hitting the nail on the head each time.
    Standouts in the night:
    Jenai Cutcher and Michelle Dorrance tapping away Bring da Noise style to bring down the house, closing the show.
    Jonah Bokaer’s NUDEDESCENDANCE referenceing “nude descending a staircase”? first, doing a striptease of sorts from seven layers of hats, sweaters, shirts, pants, more sweaters and pants, long, then short sleeve shirts, three more of them, then a untiard, then tights, then bike shorts, and finally eventually nude. lights go out, and back up on Bokaer face down on the stage a knee juts out, then a wrist and the neck bends left foot from pointed hooked, hand wraps around head, elbow bangs floor, pike up twist around, deep lunge away from audience resttle again face down and repeat similarly slowly working to a stand from DSR to DSL. light go out.
    come back up on a still nude boaker now sitting on the stairs to the stage drinking from a liter bottle of water as Peaches and Herb come up on the Speakers. The song goes on as he slowly lowers down the stairs and continues to drink. the song ends the bottle is finally emptied.
    flawless.
    other highlights: Terry Dean Bartlett of STREB’s reinterpretation of Elizabeth STREB’s “POPAction” vocabulary into an office workers day to day hum drum in “CUBICLE”. the four dancers tip and hit the floor, rotate in headstands, BAng bang BanG, a cacophony of full body hits on the wood stage culminating in a “nestea plunge”-like back fall by the dancers (all STREB company members), taking the form to a new level, adding “theatricality” or a story of sorts, to the already brilliant minimalist postmodernism of STREB’s vocabulary.

    The Carol Burnette like “dances” of Katie Workum and Leigh GArrett along with the entre-act skits of Nathan Phillips rounded out the evening with gut splitting off beat humor and wit.

    A smart, strong, hillarious evening of dance-theater.

    5 stars (out of five)

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  3. terry dean

    An all new DANCEOFF! is Approaching!

    April 5th & 6th at 8pm and 10pm both nights
    @ PS122- Corner of Ninth St. and 1st Ave.
    tickets: http://www.ticketweb.com (search word “danceoff”)

    *Starring
    Annie-b Parson w. Tricia Brouk (New Work)
    Carolina & Felipe Telona (World Professional Mambo Champs)
    Weena Pauly (Brian Brooks Moving Co./STREB/Magbana)
    Leigh Garrett (Workum-Garrett Dance Theater/Fischerspooner)
    Katie Workum (Workum-Garrett Dance Theater/David Neumann)
    Headlong Dance Theater (Philadelphia)
    Terry Dean Bartlett (STREB/Cirque Du Soleil)

    A New Dance Film from Amy Larimer and Paul Sullivan

    And Special Musical Guests:
    THE ISOTONERS!

    http://www.danceoff.net

    “Really Altogether Different…DANCEOFF! is changing the face of the Nation…well at least Modern Dance.”
    – Jenai Cutcher, Ballet-Dance Magazine

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